{"id":11292,"date":"2011-03-09T11:26:22","date_gmt":"2011-03-09T15:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/?p=11292"},"modified":"2018-03-12T07:30:04","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T11:30:04","slug":"fbla-pbl-increase-awareness-of-diabetes-during-healthy-steps-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/2011\/03\/fbla-pbl-increase-awareness-of-diabetes-during-healthy-steps-week\/","title":{"rendered":"FBLA-PBL increases awareness of diabetes during \u201cHealthy Steps\u201d week."},"content":{"rendered":"

The numbers are staggering. According to the American Diabetes Association (ADA), almost 19 million people in the United States have been diagnosed with the disease but another seven million people have undiagnosed diabetes.<\/p>\n

Helping spread awareness of diabetes prevention and symptoms was an important goal of \u201cHealthy Steps,\u201d a week of activities conducted in February 2011 by Future Business Leaders of America\u2013Phi Beta Lambda (FBLA-PBL), a student organization in the College of Business Administration at Florida International University (FIU).<\/p>\n

\u201cEach year we have a community service project, and this year our chapter voted to direct our efforts toward communication and fundraising for ADA,\u201d said Iris Curtis<\/strong>, vice president, community service.<\/p>\n

\"Attendees
Attendees got a cooking lesson as part of the weeklong \u201cHealthy Steps\u201d student effort.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Members of the American Marketing Association\u2019s collegiate chapter at FIU provided volunteers and helped the FBLA-PBL promote and advertise Healthy Steps.<\/p>\n

The week kicked off with Awareness Day on Tuesday. FBLA-PBL members handed out information from the ADA as well as flyers describing the week of activities.<\/p>\n

Wednesday\u2019s panel discussion included Curtis\u2019 mother, also named Iris Curtis, who has diabetes. Other panelists were Tania Rivera<\/strong> (MS \u201901) from FIU\u2019s Dietetics and Nutrition Department and Beatriz Gomez Galan<\/strong> (BS \u201991), programs director, Southeast Florida ADA.<\/p>\n

A cooking demonstration, presented Thursday by the Student Dietetic Association, showed an audience of 45 people how to prepare healthy dishes.<\/p>\n

\u201cThrough a partnership with the FIU Rec Center, all fitness classes on Friday were free,\u201d Curtis said. \u201cMore than 200 people took advantage of the opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Saturday\u2019s \u201cSports for a Cure\u201d event had teams of dodge ball and basketball players vying for trophies, and approximately $250 was raised for the ADA.<\/p>\n

\"Bilal
Bilal Sheikh, Kamran Hameed, Chris Tellez and Obaid Ullah from AMA won the trophy for \u201cMost Athletic Business Organization.\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The week culminated with a Sunday\u2019s brunch event entitled \u201cIt\u2019s Not Over,\u201d held at the Graham Center.<\/p>\n

\u201cBeing aware of diabetes and living healthy is a lifelong process,\u201d Curtis said.<\/p>\n

ADA<\/em> expresses appreciation to campus group. <\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cIt was my pleasure to work with the FBLA-PBL,\u201d Galan said. \u201cIt\u2019s great to see a group of young adults that are not only interested in making a difference by raising much-needed dollars, but also by spreading awareness about diabetes, its risk factors and complications.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yanyn San Luis <\/strong>(BA \u201910) and Jose Toscano <\/strong>(BA \u201997) serve as FBLA-PBL chapter advisors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The numbers are staggering. According to the American Diabetes Association (ADA), almost 19 million people in the United States have been diagnosed with the disease but another seven million people have undiagnosed diabetes. Helping spread awareness of diabetes prevention and symptoms was an important goal of \u201cHealthy Steps,\u201d a week of activities conducted in February […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[2507,2693],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11292"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/69"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11292"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30118,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11292\/revisions\/30118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}